Quirky stories of 2011

A cannonball fired by the "Mythbusters" TV show plowed through a Northern California house, struck the roof of another house and smashed through a minivan's window in a science experiment gone wrong. Story

A cannonball fired by the “Mythbusters” TV show plowed through a Northern California house, struck the roof of another house and smashed through a minivan’s window in a science experiment gone wrong. Story  (Doug Duran / Associated Press)

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Be it the macabre mummified remains of a Playboy playmate or the odd sentence of the avocado thief, Californians were prominent in some of 2011’s quirkiest stories. Read more